Metropolitan Musical Association Concert: 1st

Event Information

Venue(s):
Broadway Athenaeum (1865)

Conductor(s):
Thomas J. Cook [composer-cond.-vn]

Price: $.50

Event Type:
Chamber (includes Solo)

Performance Forces:
Instrumental, Vocal

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
18 April 2020

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

23 Feb 1865, 8:00 PM

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Chorus, unidentified;  Glee Club, The;  William Dressler;  Sophie Mozart;  Mme. M. [vocal] Bouligny;  George G. [tenor] Rockwood;  Sebastian Bach Mills;  George Washbourne Morgan
2)
"Hallelujah to the God of Israel"
Composer(s): Haydn
Participants:  Chorus, unidentified
3)
Fantasie on Gounod's Faust
Composer(s): Mills
Participants:  Sebastian Bach Mills
4)
"Land meiner seligsten Gefühle"
aka Exile, The; Land of each dear and joyous feeling ; Arioso, op. 11
Composer(s): Keller
Participants:  Sophie Mozart
5)
Mass, B-flat major
Composer(s): Farmer
Participants:  Chorus, unidentified
6)
Fantasie on Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots
Composer(s): Thalberg
Participants:  George Washbourne Morgan
7)
"Still, still the Same"
Composer(s): Cook [composer-cond.-vn]
Participants:  Mme. M. [vocal] Bouligny
8)
"Return, The"
Composer(s): Cook [composer-cond.-vn]
Participants:  Glee Club, The
9)
Belisario, "Sul campo della gloria"
aka On to the field of glory; Kreigsduett; War duet
Composer(s): Donizetti
10)
"Sleighing glee, The"
Composer(s): Cook [composer-cond.-vn]
11)
INTERMISSION
12)
Intercession, The, "Multitude of angels, The"
Composer(s): King
Participants:  Chorus, unidentified
13)
Messiah, "Comfort ye, my people"
Composer(s): Handel
Participants:  George G. [tenor] Rockwood
14)
Rhapsodie hongroise, piano, no. 10
Composer(s): Liszt
Participants:  Sebastian Bach Mills
15)
"Evening"
Composer(s): Cook [composer-cond.-vn]
16)
"Cupa fatal mestria"
aka Deep in my heart
Composer(s): Centemeri
Participants:  Mme. M. [vocal] Bouligny
17)
Variations on national airs
aka Fantasia on national airs
Composer(s): Morgan
Participants:  George Washbourne Morgan
18)
"Laughing glee, The"
Composer(s): Cook [composer-cond.-vn]
19)
"Come in and shut the door"
Composer(s): Callcott
Participants:  Sophie Mozart
20)
Ernani, "Ha, Ha! We’ve stemmed the stream"
Composer(s): Verdi
Participants:  Chorus, unidentified

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 19 February 1865.

2)
Announcement: New York Post, 21 February 1865.

3)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 21 February 1865.

4)
Announcement: New York Post, 22 February 1865.

5)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 23 February 1865, 7.
Program and performers.
6)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 23 February 1865, 7.
Several small ads: “A first class concert.” “2 Grand Piano Solos by Mills.” “2 Organ solos by Morgan.”
7)
Review: New York Post, 24 February 1865.
Brief comment. “[A]nd with such a felicitous variety of attractions the audience was, as it ought to have been, entirely satisfied.”